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Press releases, event announcements, weekly updates–almost daily, students at Harvard Medical School (HMS) receive mass e-mails from a variety of administrative departments. We gloss over many of them. But I try to read the e-mails on medical education reform. Many of the medical school’s most thoughtful and experienced teachers are leading this initiative, and broad agreement exists among students that the need for reform is pressing...
...only if clinical trials–as opposed to mere anecdotal experience–have suggested that the therapies are effective. The medical school wants to establish a new Center for Evaluation to apply the academic gold standard to medical education techniques. “To ensure that curriculum reform is not a faith-based initiative,” the vignette continues, “the center will take its measuring tape [to assess how well the curriculum meets students’ needs...
...phrase confused me, and I read it over and over again. A faith-based initiative? The author could have written “to ensure that curriculum reform is not based on unproven methods,” or any number of different formulations. He seems to use the term “faith-based” to contrast with “evidence-based.” And in doing that, he stumbled upon a contemporary idiom, “faith-based initiatives.” He didn’t have to employ an idiom that, for so many...
...Jones is quick to shatter this glasshouse of cultural cross-pollination. When Mary becomes the scapegoat following the murder of Perdita's father and is banished to reform school in Perth, Sorry begins to articulate the deep unease of a family faced with the unfinished business of history. And it is around the grisly events that took place in the kitchen of the Keenes' cattle- station shack that the novel cinematically circles...
...When people are critical of Tony Blair they forget where Britain was in 1997 and they forget we were a stop-go economy, we had very high unemployment and we've created two and a half million jobs. We had public services that people thought were incapable of reform, that were neglected and underinvested, and we've doubled the investment as a result of economic growth. They forget also that he's brought peace to Northern Ireland, that we've led the world in debt relief, in tackling HIV/AIDS and poverty in the poorest countries and, at the same time...